Good promo but odd not to include OUAT, Dallas or The Walking Dead, maybe they'll be shown separately or as part of a different drama trailer.

Fox have confirmed some scheduling details in the US including how they're going to balance House, Alcatraz and Touch on Monday nights. In short House is going on hiatus throughout March with Alcatraz shifting to 8PM to act as lead-in for Touch. Although bizarrely the first time Touch airs Monday at 9PM it'll be a repeat of the pilot that'll have already run out of American Idol. Its also been confirmed that the House series finale will air May 21. Its currently scheduled to be an hour but that might change depending on whether Touch is working out or not.

Other scheduling news from Fox the two-hour Tuesday comedy block will run for just 5 weeks (March 6 – April 3) with Glee returning with new episodes on April 10. Not sure what they're going to do with the remaining episodes of Breaking In but they might end up airing out of Idol given how Teenage Daughter was faring in the Fall. Bones will return with new episodes April 5 and Gordon Ramsey's new format, Hotel Hell, will debut the following night in the slot currently occupied by Kitchen Nightmares.

It was a promo for their procedurals. I would assume they'll be a different promo for the non-procedural dramas although they may not have enough of those right now to warrant creating a special trailer for them.

Given that 2 of 3 are new to Channel 5, that might warrant a "new to Channel 5" trailer, maybe tag Waking The Dead on the end, as its a new series.

This seems to confirm t hat EE will be on BBC 2 over the Olympics. Quite how the nation will survive without The One Show, I will never know.

It would be much more logical to put the Olympics on BBC2 from about 7 pm, perhaps shared with BBC3. I wonder whether TOS could be ''rested'' permanently ?

Haha. (I had a deadline for yesterday )


BBC are not going to axe a show which gets 4m to 5m all year round.

Summary of the Daily Mail article:

- EastEnders, Panorama, Songs of Praise and Holby City moving from BBC One to BBC Two
- The One Show and Casualty will be 'rested'

And:


Doesn't tell us much more though.

I believe there is a question mark over the 6.30 local news as the English regions no longer have the ability to opt-out of BBC2 (although the National regions do). Interesting because recently the BBC was telling the Trust it might not be able to honour its obligations to the national news bulletins (perhaps the Trust has tiold the BBC it will).It will be amusing to see EE on BBC2 outrating the Olympics on BBC1.

Channel5 to renew Big Brother contract for 'several more years' and more CBB:

Celebrity Big Brother 2012 boosts Channel5's ratings to highest ever figures

FX doesn't start the second half of season two of The Walking Dead until next Friday (it restarts in the US tomorrow), so it will be a long time until it gets to C5.

*Wrong show!!

I think two CBBs a year could be overkill. There's surely only a limited supply of 'celebrities' who will appear on a show like this and at 2 series per year it won't take them long to work through the list.

I can see why it's under consideration as the Celeb series has been a lot more successful than normal BB on 5 but I don't think it's wise to exhaust the format.

Not so. Their rights commence in April so free-to-air viewers shouldn't have long to wait at all before they can enjoy this great show uninterrupted over 13 consecutive weeks.

Good for Five if I was ITV I would have also bided for this.

Last night:

-The Graham Norton Show averaged 4.1m - over 4x higher than any other channel in that slot (exc +1s).
-Stella averaged 628k, peaking at 722k.
-Million Pound Drop peaked at 3.2m.

Sources: John Williams and Sam Hodges.

Fantastic rating for Graham Norton! MPD also seems higher than it has been of late (even though it's a peak) and Stella continues to perform really well.

Who was on Graham Norton? Great rating for it. And Million Pound Drop must have averaged in the low 2m's, first time it's done really well in a while.

Dame Judi Dench, Dev Patel and Sue Perkins. Dame Judi had some great stories and the sofa was comfortable with each other. The show deserves those kinds of ratings tbh! Was a great episode.

Great for Norton, pissing all over Ross as he does week in week out. Wonder if ratings were up last night due to the weather? I see the southern jessies had a bit more snow and ice yesterday. It even merited a mention on the Ten O Clock News....

Chris Moyles was on MPD and he spent about 2 hours going on about it on Friday morning, so that explains the increase.

Why hasnt Sam Hodges tweeted Hustles rating, he normally does.

Also Will Young, who was interviewed and sang.

The whole show was good natured, funny and unforced. Graham is a great host, and all the guests were great. Deserved the viewing figure.

Need you ask?

I've just asked him. 4.6m, with 3.3m for Room 101.

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Operation Stop The Midwife?

That's no surprise - but really a waste of BBC cash. They've known for 7 years it was coming - EE should be rested for the period as neither EE or the Olympic coverage will benefit from EE being on BBC2. If they insist on EE having some presence a short run of spin-off E20 over the period would be best.


I think the supply of celebrities for all such shows ran out quite some time ago.